What is the relationship between student body’s ethnic/racial, socioeconomic and linguistic composition with academic performance?
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ClearSchool Composition and Peer Effects in Distinctive Organizational Settings
Reviews the research on school composition and peer effects from three comparative perspectives.
School Composition and Peer Effects
Conceptual and methodological problems related to theorizing school compositional effect.
Immigration and African American Educational Opportunity: The Transformation of Minority Schools
Assesses the extent to which African Americans versus non-Hispanic Whites attend schools with children with limited English proficiency (LEP).
Trading in Futures: Why Markets in Education Don't Work
Individual and school level variables effect on achievement.
Relation of Parental Involvement, Empowerment, and School Traits to Student Academic Performance
What is the relation of parental involvement in education to student academic performance? What is the relation of parent perceptions of involvement and empowerment and school structural characteristics to student academic performance?
How Much Does a High School's Racial and Socioeconomic Mix Affect Graduation and Teenage Fertility Rates?
Examine the potential impact of racial and socioeconomic desegregation of schools on students’ chances of dropping out of high schools and on teenage girls’ chances of having a child.